ACLU of Washington

The Bill of Rights would only be well-meaning promises if people did not fight to protect it. The ACLU is the nation’s premier organization dedicated to defending and expanding all civil liberties and civil rights in America. Our job is to conserve America’s original civic values – the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
* We’re in the courts every day for hundreds of ordinary Americans – when their rights to equal treatment, fairness, privacy, freedom of speech or religion are threatened.
* We are working to resist government responses to terrorism that make us less free and no safer.
* We staunchly support every person’s right to make personal decisions – without government interference – about religion, abortion, marriage, and other family and lifestyle matters.
* We are working to make sure that emerging technologies do not diminish our right to privacy and that freedom of speech is protected in cyberspace.
* The ACLU is a leader in the fight for equal opportunity regardless of race, gender, or sexual orientation.